FAQ for Psi+ users

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about installing, configuring and working with Psi+ under various operating systems.

Answer 1: Step by step Psi/Psi+ setup guide with screenshots here/resource unavailable/.

Answer 2: The installer archive contains all the necessary files for Psi+, but the zip archive – *ONLY* contains the psi-plus.exe file.

Answer 3: To display clients icons in the roster, do the following:

• Update Psi+ to the current version
• Download fingerprint.jisp and copy it to the Psi+/iconsets/clients directory
• Enable the specified option in the roster settings and choose the roster iconset in appearance settings

Answer 4: To get Psi+ working in portable mode, you have several options:

1. Copy a folder Psi+ from %APPDATA% (%APPDATA%\Roaming in OS Windows >= 7) to folder that contains psi-plus.exe
2. Rename psi-plus.exe to psi-plus-portable.exe manually or using the script make-psi-plus-portable.bat directly in the working Psi+ folder and then run psi-plus-portable.exe.

Answer 5: Yes, using Qt 4.5.0 after you exit the application process remains “hanging”. It's recommended that to upgrade your Qt version to 4.5.1 or above.

Answer 6: Instructions for building Psi+ under MS Windows (32 bit) are here.

Answer 7: The latest version of the Russian localization for Psi/Psi+ is here.

Answer 8: Animated smileys can be used in a test version of Psi+ WebKit. In other Psi+ versions, as well as in the Psi official version, animation support is not implemented.

First of all your music player must support one of these technologies as follows:

• MPRIS (v.1 or v.2)
• Winamp API
• AIMP API

If it doesn't supports then:

Answer 9.1: Instructions for configuring publications listen tracks from foobar2000 in Psi+ are here .

Answer 9.2: Instructions for Songbird (by KukuRuzo).

Answer 9.3: For qomp you can enable tunetofile plugin and set path to tune file in player settings

Answer 9.4: If your music player supports the necessary features, and there is no broadcast, open the Psi+ Settings → entry Status → there PEP tab and activate the desired music controller

Answer 10: For example:

• Download the Plugins from here
• Extract for example the screenshotplugin.dll to the Psi+ folder (for example, C:/Program Files/Psi+/Plugins)
• Run the Psi+ → Open the application Options → Choose a Plugins entry → Screenshot Plugin → And turn on the check mark in front of the name of the plugin → Press Apply button → Restart the Psi+
• Enjoy ;)

Answer 11: To activate the spell checker you should:

For official builds:

• Download and install Psi+ version with Aspell support
• Download aspell-15.dll and the Russian-English Dictionary from here , unzip the archive into the Psi+ directory
• Checkmark [v] Check spelling in Misc. tab of application Options

For personal builds by KukuRuzo:

• Download and install Psi+ version with Hunspell support
• Download myspell dictionaries for example from here (You need to download only *.dic and *.aff files)
• Copy the downloaded files into myspell/dicts directory (for example C:\Prorgam Files (x86)\Psi-plus-qt5\myspell\dicts)
• Checkmark [v] Check spelling in Misc. tab of application Options

Answer 12: Create a text file mucskipautojoin.txt in the directory that contains PsiData for the current Psi+ profile and write the JIDs in it of the conferences which should be skipped for autojoining by Psi+.

Answer 13: The Psi+ can work with captcha. To do this you must disable the following option:

Answer 14: To do this you need to update the Qt library. Make it possible to add /etc/apt/sources.list the following lines:

deb http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/kde43/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.debian-desktop.org/pub/linux/debian/kde43/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Then save the file and execute the following commands:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -t lenny-backports install libqt4-core

To prevent the automatic update from these repositories you need to add to /etc/apt/preferences the following lines:

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 600

Answer: We are recommended to use the Extended Options Plugin and at Conference tab you must to enable the similar option (See the screenshot below):

ATTENTION!!! This information is obsolete but can help in some extraordinary cases!

Answer: Usually sufficient default account settings. If you have previously configured your account with specified host (For example, host:talk.google.com), you must delete the HOST entry and reconnect to the Google server.

This way:

Or this way:

Answer: An example of command for installing the current version of Psi+ with all plugins and two languages (EN, RU):

psi-plus-1.5.1646.0-x64-setup.exe /SP- /VERYSILENT /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /LANG=russian /COMPONENTS="*plugins,Dicts\ru_RU,Dicts\en_US"

Answer: Add -platform xcb argument to the program start command

Or create a local startup file Psi +:

cp /usr/share/applications/psi-plus.desktop ~ /.local/share/applications/

open the file ~/.local/share/applications/psi-plus.desktop with a text editor and fix the exec line:

from

Exec = psi-plus %U

to

Exec = psi-plus -platform xcb %U

Check Cinnamon's window manager settings. There is an option preventing focus stealing and it definitely work in version 4.2.4 of Cinnamon. You have earlier version the setting may absent or do not work. Essentially it looks like a Cinnamon bug since they rise a window even on methods supposed to just flash the task bar.